Grove v. Brandenburg

— Trespass on the case. The declaration contains two counts. The first count is to the following effect: That the defendant wickedly intending to injure the plaintiff, &c., on, &c., falsely and maliciously informed one Archibald Estep, that the plaintiff had said that he, Estep, was a horsethief; that, by means thereof, the defendant did then and there, wickedly and maliciously, procure Estep to prosecute the plaintiff in slander for the supposed speaking of said words ; that, afterwards, when said action came on to be tried, the defendant, with the intent aforesaid, procured himself to be…